The Cursed Immortal 1.

COLLABORATIVE PROJECT- My part

“Hey Chris! Wait up!”‒ Somebody came from behind me and touched my shoulder. A shudder rippled through me. I turn around with a forced smile and see Dale smiling sheepishly at me. His black curly hair was more disheveled than normal and his stature was all gangly limbs and heavy breathing. Sighing, I stopped in my tracks and reached out for his extended hand to shake it, “Hi Dale. Everything alright?”

Dale was like a chewing gum that stuck to your shoe and it’s been there for so long that it would just be weird to not have it there anymore. At times annoying, sticking to all sorts of dirt that you later have to get rid off, but under no circumstance will the gum leave your shoe. So you just deal with it.

More explicitly speaking, he is my chewing gum because my boss assigned me to protect him. So all the dirt I have to deal with is deserving of all my abilities. But that doesn’t mean I have to like the boy. He has more air than brain in that head of his.

Dale finally stops heaving, takes a second look at me with his pale grey eyes and notices my common clothes rather than my usual uniform and flinches. “Today is your rest day, isn’t it?”

“Yes. But since you are here, spew it at once. What has happened?”

He hesitates, and after a few moments, his shoulders sag. ‒ “I heard from some kitchen girls from the palace- you know how I love going there to eat the sweets they make, and there is this girl Bettie, she is really pretty‒”

“Get to the point Dale.”

He gulped down and said quickly “They said that they are going to announce the Princess’ future husband tomorrow morning at market day! And that any bachelor is considered a candidate. Even you and me.” I just looked at him. Blinked once. Twice.

“What?”

“I know! It would have been awesome to marry a princess any other day, but that curse sure does make me all warm and tingly inside. Ha! Truth be told, I am pissing in my pants and wish I was already married to not gamble with the gods’ pranks. But anyways, I just wanted to tell you the news, because anybody who doesn’t show will be executed for breaking the law and…” He stopped to breathe, for he said all of that in one breath. If one thing always surprised me is how much he can talk. And talk he did.

And the reason why nobody would not like to marry the princess, ladies and gentlemens, is because Princess Dorothea was cursed by an evil witch. Cursed so that the first person to marry her would die gruesomely. Not long after the curse was known to the pleb that the King and Queen had an idea. Their idea was to marry their daughter to a commoner, and since he was going to die shortafter, she would be free to marry somebody else important, form an alliance and increase their power.

But with everybody knowing that, families moved with their sons far away, just to not risk being chosen. I myself would have liked to have moved, but my parents were too occupied with each other to care about me and my siblings. And so I stayed and did the contrary to what they wanted for me: I became part of the royal guard.

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